South Park Season 21 Episode 1
In interviews leading up to South Park’s season 21 premiere, creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker reiterated over and over that they wanted to get back to the boys being boys. What springs to mind are more innocent stories like when the boys banded together to defeat a Warcraft troll, a simple concept that barely had a B plot. The glory days of South Park! Back to the basics. When the episode teaser dropped Monday with the “took yer jobs” townies marching and chanting “You will not replace us,” I assumed South Park would punch hard at the White Nationalists and Neo-Nazis. Instead, they came out punching with kid’s gloves for the season 21 premiere. When Randy’s says there’s “hurt from both sides,” it’s a good sendup of white people ignoring the real injustices in our society and only worrying about how it affects them and makes them feel. It wasn’t their strongest social commentary in recent years, and it only made that more obvious when it all failed to coalesce as they jumbled the Alexa/House Renovators/blue collar workers plots. From a show that had more biting satirical commentary on topics like Safe Spaces and PC culture, George Zimmerman, and Black Lives Matter, I expected a much stronger response to the events of Charlotteville from a South Park season premiere. As usual in South Park, they shouldn’t let the adults try to do the boys work. Let’s get back to that. Cooling off your soup with the confederate flag will do that… and it might just be a new meme… Finally, the official South Park twitter account was buying fans free food tonight:
